5 Can’t-Miss Apple Music Exclusive Album for 2016

Just use one year, Apple Music has been the second platform of online streaming music service. In June 2016, its subscriber's number has exceeded 15 million. Apple Music faces direct competition from similar music streaming services, including Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, Google Play Music and YouTube Red. To make it different from others and attract customers, Apple Music has launched many special functions and content, like “For You”, “content” and so on. Among them, exclusive content is a highly useful strategy to attract customers. Here the article will introduce five can’t miss Apple Music exclusive album, Frank Ocean’s 'Blonde' and 'Endless', Britney Spears’ 'Glory', Stefanie Sun’s 'Rainbow Bot', Drake’s 'Views From the 6'.

1. Blonde

Singer: Frank Ocean

Release Date: August 20, 2016

Content: It is a long-awaited album, which used to be referred to as "Boys Don't Cry". But due to an early report of New York Times, Frank Ocean and its music team delayed the release date, and made a decision to change the name of album on August 5 to maintain the surprise of fans. "Blonde" contains 17 tracks, “Nikes”, “Ivy”, “Pink + White” and so on. The album will be exclusive content on the iTunes Store and Apple Music for two weeks, while customers can purchase the album or individual tracks from iTunes.

2. Endless

Singer: Frank Ocean

Release Date: August 19, 2016

Content: Ocean released Endless, which is a 45-minute-long visual album that began streaming on Apple Music on August 19, 2016. The “visual album” shows Ocean in a warehouse building a wooden staircase backed by brand new tracks complete with vocals. Tom Sachs said: “You see him building a stairway to heaven in real time. The 40-minute version is edited, but there's something like a 140-hour version. That’s the whole thing. That exists, that’s the art piece.”

3. Glory

Singer: Britney Spears

Released Date: August 26, 2016

Content: The “Glory” is the ninth for Spears; it is three years since her last album “Britney Jean” was debuted in 2013. The album became available for pre-order on all music digital distribution platforms at midnight ET on August 3, 2016. Spears released the first single from the album, "Make Me..." on July 15, 2016.

4. Rainbow Bot

Singer: Stefanie Sun

Released Date: August 17, 2016

Content: Rainbow Bot, out on August 17 exclusively at the Apple Music and will remain available only on platforms for four months. It comes from EP of five songs with the same title. The theme of the EP is centered on nature and “how it is best to be one with it”.

5. Views From the 6

Singer: Drake

Released Date: April 29, 2016

Content: Views is the fourth studio album by Canadian rapper Drake, which attracts a big chunk of paying users to Apple Music. Views features 20 songs, which is more than on any of his previous albums. From Wikipedia, Views was met with lukewarm reviews from critics, many of whom found it to be an overlong retread of Drake's previous work. The album nonetheless achieved chart success, remaining at number one on the US Billboard 200 for 12 weeks. "One Dance" became Drake's first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single as a lead artist, spending 10 weeks at number one.

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